Your object was to steal and take bribes from the cities, to blind Demos to your villainies by the dust of war, and to make him gape after you in need and necessity for war-pensions.
Mnesilochus defends him; women are capable of far more villainies than even Euripides has exposed.
All his villainiesbore the stamp of such consummate skill that the country came to view them with a sort of awe akin to respect.
The arm-chair which I was sitting in was the one in which John the Crooked (as he was pleased to call himself in his facetious days) used to sit and think out his villainies or issue his odious orders.
The most unblushing villainies and crimes were either officially condoned or remitted and forgiven.
And there are villainies behind that to be reckoned with, to say nothing of all the villainies to do when that hole shall be stuffed.
The darkest villainies which have disgraced humanity cannot neutralize it.
Not even the dark villainies which have disgraced humanity can neutralize it.
He talked on, and described villainies to come and villainies accomplished; the tale of his misdeeds seemed to possess him.
Like all those who belong to worn-out generations, he must have been disgusted with action and thevillainies it involves.
She had read of the villainies that had been done under cover of that accusation, which indeed has too often prevented honest men from interfering with deeds of lawless violence.
Two attractive villainies presented themselves to his ingenious mind, and he naturally hesitated between them.
Ay, and who knows but he might have come to himself with the prodigal, and have asked God and his father forgiveness for the villainies that he had committed against them.
That execrable sum of all villainies commonly called a slave trade.
The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.
The Business of this Work is to shew the Distresses of an almost innocent Sufferer, and the Villainies of a debauched Man, who wanted chiefly to pride himself in the Conquest of her.
Piero dreaded that his villainies would be detected by Feliche.
He scourgeth villainiesin young and old As boys scourge tops for sport on Lenten day.
The thought of holding innocent children as hostages could only have originated in minds attuned to the villainies of devils.
I subjoin the reward of myvillainies and the correct balance of the account.
About this time their robberies and villainies having made so much noise as to deserve the notice of the Government, a proclamation was published for the apprehending Burnworth, Blewit, etc.
A dapper, well-set fellow of great strength, and great cruelty, equally detested by the sober part of the world for his audacious wickedness of his behaviour, and despised by his companions for the villainies he committed even against them.
From these villainies in intention, the present state of their affairs called upon them to make some provision for their immediate safety.
But he continued still very obdurate, being so hardened by a continual series of villainous actions that he seemed to have no idea whatsoever of religion, penitence or atoning by prayers, for the numerous villainies he had committed.
This was his most obedient and most unflinching creature, the Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, of whose unexampled villainies we shall soon hear too much.
That Cuban time, with its movements, its pettiness, its intrigue, its warmth, even its villainiesshowed plainly enough in the chill of that blackness.
In the midst of all this tumult obscure murmurs began to arise that Barratt had practised the same or similar villainies in former instances.
The world abounds with knaves and villains; but, of all knaves, the religious knave is the worst, and villainies acted under the cloak of religion the most execrable.
The whole country suffers for the villainies of a few such wolves in sheep's clothing, and we are all represented as a pack of knaves and hypocrites for their sakes.
It would have damaged him fatally with the citizens, who were disposed to deal lightly with him if he would aid them in getting at and punishing the villainies of his former confederates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villainies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
